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	London Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London Company (also called the Virginia Company of London) was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by James I on April 10, 1606 with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
		The business of the company was the settlement of the Virginia colony using as the labour force volunteer adventurers under the customary indenture system whereby in exchange for seven years of labour for the company, the company provided passage, food, protection and land ownership.
		The Virginia Company quickly published an account of this attack which was steeped in Calvinist theology - the massacre was the work of providence in that it gave an excuse for the complete genocide of the Powhatan, and the building of settlements on their former towns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Virginia_Company (2242 words)

	Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virginia was given its nickname "The Old Dominion" by King Charles II of England at the time of the Restoration for remaining loyal to the crown during the English Civil War.
		Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union to become the Confederacy during the Civil War.
		Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River) to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky and West Virginia to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virginia (2382 words)

	Virginia - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South.
		In 1790 both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to form the new District of Columbia, but in an Act of the U.S. Congress dated July 9, 1846, the territory that had been ceded by Virginia was returned, and is now Arlington County and part of the City of Alexandria.
		The Virginia Supreme Court, composed of the chief justice and six other judges is the highest court in the Commonwealth, with only the Supreme Court of the United States outranking it.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /virginia.htm (1822 words)

	Encyclopedia: London Virginia Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The London Company was responsible for establishing the Jamestown Settlement, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in 1607.
		The portion of the company's territory north of the 38th parallel was shared with the Plymouth Company, with the stipulation that neither company found a colony within 100 miles of each other.
		As a result, the charter was adjusted for the London Colony with a new grant that extended from "sea to sea" between the 34th and 40th parallel.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/London-Virginia-Company (1271 words)

	Jamestown, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Upon landing, secret orders from the Virginia Company are opened which named John Smith as one of the councilors.
		In 1624, the Virginia Company lost its charter and Virginia became a crown colony.
		The area was donated to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1893, before which time, it had seen settlement, rebellion (in 1676), and battle (during the Civil War).
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/jamestown__virginia.html (1942 words)

	London Virginia Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Worshipful Company of Engineers; City of London The Worshipful Company of Engineers is the 94th Livery Company of the City of London.
		The Worshipful Company of Gardeners of London The 66th City Livery Company: possessed of a small endowmentt, it nonetheless seeks to support charitable activities connected with horticulture or the City of London as well as to promote gardening good practice, particularly in the City, where it a
		The Worshipful Company of Scriveners of the City of London The 44th Company, also known as the Mysterie of the Writers of the Court Letter.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-London_Virginia_Company.html (509 words)

	Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		US-VA Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South.
		In 1790 both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to form the new District of Columbia, but in an Act of Congress dated July 9, 1846, the territory that had been ceded was returned to Virginia, and is now Arlington County and part of the City of Alexandria.
		Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky to the west.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/virginia (974 words)

	The Thomas Jefferson Papers - Virginia Records Timeline - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
		King James of England charters the Virginia Company of London and appoints a royal council to oversee its ventures and the colony.
		Company adventurers (investors) include merchants from the west and former soldiers who had fought as mercenaries on the side of the Dutch against the Spanish.
		The King recharters the Virginia Company of London, transferring governance and control of the colony from the Crown to the Company itself.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/mtjhtml/mtjvatm2.html (1477 words)

	Definition of Virginia Company
		The Virginia Company refers collectively to a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I in 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.
		By the terms of the charter, the London Company was permitted to establish a colony of 100 miles square between the 34th parallel and the 41st parallel (approximately between Cape Fear and Long Island Sound), and also owned a large portion of Atlantic and Inland Canada.
		The Plymouth Company was permitted to establish a similar settlement between the 38th parallel and the 45th parallel (roughly between Chesapeake Bay and the current U.S. Canada border).
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Virginia_Company (328 words)

	AllRefer.com - London Company (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		London Company, corporation composed of stockholders residing in and about London, which, together with the Plymouth Company (see Virginia Company), was granted (1606) a charter by King James I to found colonies in America.
		The London Company was granted a tract of land fronting 100 mi (160 km) on the sea and extending 100 mi inland, somewhere between lat.
		Although affairs in Virginia gradually improved, a petition was presented (1623) to the king calling for an investigation of conditions in the colony.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LondonCom.html (540 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virginia
		The population of Virginia in 1910 was 2,061,612; whites, 1,389,809; negroes, 671,096; Indians, Chinese, and Japanese, 707.
		The name "Virginia", in honour of Queen Elizabeth, was given to all the territory from the French colonies on the north to the Spanish settlements on the south, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
		Virginia, as far back as 1778, with other states, introduced in congress a bill for the abolition of slavery, which was defeated by the New England states, which made money by importing slaves to be sold to the South, and by the cotton states, desirous of negro service for the plantations.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15451a.htm (6321 words)

	Virginia Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Virginia Company was formed with a charter from King James I in 1606.
		The initial reaction to the Company was favorable but as the mortality rate rose and the prospect for profit grew dim, the support for it waned.
		The charter was finally revoked in 1624 and Virginia became a Crown colony, largely as a result of the Indian Massacre of 1622.
	www.apva.org /history/vaco.html (139 words)

	Nicholas Ferrar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon returning to London he found that the family fortunes, primarily invested in Virginia, were under threat.
		Ferrar's pamphlet Sir Thomas Smith's Misgovernance of the Virginia Company was only published by the Roxborough Club in 1990.
		Here he lays charges that that Smith and his son-in-law Robert Johnson, were running a company within a company to cream of the profits from the shareholders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Ferrar (304 words)

	VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON
		It was not until 1606 that the Virginia Company of London received a charter from the newly-crowned King James I. Following the precedent set by other companies such as the Moscovy Company and East India Company, the Virginia Company was a joint-stock company, which sold shares.
		The Virginia Company was formed both to bring profit to its shareholders and to establish an English colony in the New World.
		The Company, under the direction of its treasurer Sir Thomas Smith, was instructed to colonize land between the 34th and 41st northern parallel.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Jthanout/VACompany.html (1434 words)

	Africans in America/Part 1/The Virginia Company of London
		Africans in America/Part 1/The Virginia Company of London
		The goal of the Virginia Company was clear enough: establish a permanent colony in America that would make a profit for the Company.
		The company, chartered by King James I in April, 1606, was comprised of two divisions.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part1/1p264.html (381 words)

	The Thomas Jefferson Papers - The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London - (American Memory from the ...
		The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London trace the activities of the English settlers who founded the Jamestown colony in the Tidewater area of Chesapeake Bay.
		The ultimate success of the Jamestown colony led to the establishment of the colony of Virginia, the largest and arguably the most important colony in British North America, and for that reason the records are a critical primary source for early American history.
		Stith was able to persuade the government of Virginia to make transcripts of the papers as a preservation measure (these transcripts are also in the collections of the Library of Congress) but seems not to have treated the original papers.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjessay2.html (5023 words)

	London Company -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The company was formed in 1555 by the navigator and explorer Sebastian Cabot and various London merchants and was granted a monopoly of Anglo-Russian trade.
		The company is based in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it maintains three venues—the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Swan Theatre (fashioned after the Elizabethan-era theatre of the same name), and the Other Place (a studio theatre).
		London is the capital of the United Kingdom and the mother city of the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9315401?tocId=9315401 (921 words)

	Virginia's History
		The London Company, with stockholders looking toward gains that might be derived from the finding of a passage to the South Sea and from the discovery of precious metals in the New World, was guilty of inadequate stewardship.
		Though the fundamental cause of unrest in Virginia was economic and brought about by dire distress of the small farmers, liberty-loving Anglo-Saxons were holding responsible for their plight the arrogant rule of the governor, who they believed had deprived them of the freeman's right to petition for redress.
		The essential history of Virginia from 1690 to 1776 is a record of the economic and territorial expansion of a maturing colony.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/history.html (11081 words)

	London Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those persons who may be qualified would be descendants of persons who purchased shares in the London Company or were members of Liveried Companies who purchased shares during the period 1609 to 1624.
		If one's ancestor were a member of a London Livery Company (1609-1624) that purchased stock in the Virginia Company, then that ancestor was a contributor to and a stockholder in the Virginia Company of London.
		If the qualifying ancestor is a member of a Liveried Company, you should obtain a statement from that Liveried Company that the qualifying ancestor was a member of that Company during the period of 1609 through 1624.
	www.jamestowne.org /london.htm (823 words)

	SIR EDWIN SANDYS - LoveToKnow Article on SIR EDWIN SANDYS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(1561-1629), British statesman and one of the founders tof the colony of Virginia, was the secOnd son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, and his wife Cecily Wilford.
		He endeavoured to secure to all prisoners the right of employing counsel, a proposal which was resisted by some lawyers as subversive of the administration of the law.
		His most memorable services were, however, rendered to the (London) Virginia Company, to which he became treasurer in 1619.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SANDYS_SIR_EDWIN.htm (476 words)

	13 Originals
		Little Virginia Dare, was the granddaughter of John White, the appointed Governor of the "Lost Colony", and was probably the first English baby born in the New World.
		Both companies quickly sought to exercise their patents but the London Company was the first to actually place colonists on the shore.
		Virginia colonists began to settle the North Carolina region in 1653 to provide a buffer for the southern frontier.
	www.timepage.org /spl/13colony.html (3518 words)

	Virginia Company on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the terms of the charter, the Virginia Company of London (see London Company) was given permission to plant a colony 100 mi (160 km) square between lat.
		By 1609 the Plymouth Company had become inactive, and the London Company was granted its own individual charter in that year.
		The Plymouth Company later received (1620) a new charter as the Council for New England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/virgnc1o.asp (537 words)

	History of Jamestown
		In June of 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of London entrepreneurs, the Virginia Company, to establish a satellite English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America.
		By December, 108 settlers sailed from London instructed to settle Virginia, find gold and a water route to the Orient.
		On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island, to establish the Virginia English colony on the banks of the James River 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
	www.apva.org /history (904 words)

	Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South or, alternately, as an extension of the Mid-Atlantic.
		The judicial branch comprehends the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Virginia Court of Appeals, the General District Courts and the Circuit Courts.
		Virginia has Amtrak passenger rail service along several corridors and Virginia Railway Express (VRE) maintains two commuter lines into Washington, DC.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Virginia.htm (1758 words)

	London Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		London Company, corporation composed of stockholders residing in and about London, which, together with the Plymouth Company (see
		Delta PLC, London, sold JW Singer and Sons, Ltd., a nonferrous diecasting company.
		Leapingsalmon, the upmarket meal kit company, is continuing to open spaces on rail station concourses, with Charing Cross and London Bridge coming soon.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0830212.html (572 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - London Company
		London Company, also called Virginia Company, one of two English joint-stock companies chartered April 10, 1606, to colonize in North America.
		18th century growth, Agreement of London and Hansa Towns, banking, clothing and velvet merchants, founding of YMCA, Industrial Revolution in...
		When the London and Bristol Company began to establish resident fisheries to control the fishing industry, it also began promoting settlement.
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